While saying his uncle, John F. Kennedy, would stand with former President Donald Trump in embracing direct diplomacy with U.S. adversaries, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted a vote for Kamala Harris is "a vote for nuclear war."
Kennedy, a former independent presidential candidate who's now supporting former Trump against Harris in the presidential election, took to X on Thursday to post a compelling video about why he believes nuclear war is possible if the Democrat candidate becomes president.
"Kamala Harris is inexperienced in foreign policy and her belligerent and hostile remarks about Russia during her acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention were extremely alarming," RFK Jr. says in the video. "Those words demonstrated that she would be a perfect pushover, a puppet for the military intelligence faction that wants this war.
"We don't need a president who is so weak that she needs to prove her strength to the American people by sacrificing the life of American military personnel in foreign engagements abroad."
Kennedy added that, in contrast to Harris, Trump repeatedly has said that he would negotiate with Putin to end the Ukraine war.
"If JFK were alive today, he would be standing side by side with President Trump on this issue," Kennedy said. "My uncle said that the most important thing we can do is talk to our adversaries. That's why he installed a hot line in the White House and in his home at Hyannis Port so he could communicate directly with [former Soviet Union Premier Nikita] Khrushchev."
Kennedy also tied Harris to anti-Trump former Vice President Dick Cheney.
"A vote today for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, who lied to get a war started in which more than a million people died," Kennedy said. "Nuclear war today would mean billions of people dead. A recent study predicts World War III will last only 73 minutes, and that in that time, 5.8 billion human beings will die. And as JFK said, 'Those who survive a nuclear war will envy the dead.'
"Most estimates are that over a million Iraqis died while the USA and allied forces suffered over 4,800 deaths and over 32,000 wounded. We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did. This fraction of our military and intelligence establishment that we call the neocons, led by Dick Cheney, faked the evidence of weapons of mass destruction because they wanted a war."
Kennedy urged viewers to vote for Trump.
"If you want to avoid nuclear war, I strongly urge you to vote for Donald Trump," he said. "In fact, I would go so far as to say that a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for nuclear war."
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